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  • Thinking Ecologically About the Global Political Economy

    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    This book advances an ecologically grounded approach to International Political Economy (IPE). Katz-Rosene and Paterson address a lacuna in the literature by exploring the question of how thinking ecologically transforms our understanding of what IPE is and should be.The volume shows the ways in which socio-ecological processes are integral to the themes treated by students and scholars of IPE – ... Read more

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  • Green Meat?

    Sustaining Eaters Animals and the Planet

    It seems an irrefutable truth that raising animals for meat has become unsustainable. Land is being eroded and destroyed, water resources overdrawn, greenhouse gases over-emitted, and energy and crops unnecessarily diverted - all to satiate a growing and inequitable global overconsumption of meat. But is all meat unsustainable? Sustainable food systems are multiple and varied and represent the ... Read more

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    Sustaining Eaters Animals and the Planet

    It seems an irrefutable truth that raising animals for meat has become unsustainable. Land is being eroded and destroyed, water resources overdrawn, greenhouse gases over-emitted, and energy and crops unnecessarily diverted - all to satiate a growing and inequitable global overconsumption of meat. But is all meat unsustainable? Sustainable food systems are multiple and varied and represent the ... Read more

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  • Hamlet's Arab Journey

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  • Existential Utopia

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    Radical political thought of the 20th century was dominated by utopia, but the failure of communism in Eastern Europe and its disavowal in China has brought on the need for a new model of utopian thought. This book thus seeks to redefine the concept of utopia and bring it to bear on today's politics.The original essays, contributed by key thinkers such as Gianni Vattimo and Jean-Luc Nancy, ... Read more

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  • American Exceptionalism in the Age of Obama

    Series series Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
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    Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
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